As a result, Mongolia, though poor, had a decent enough social-welfare system, and few Mongolians fell through its cracks.
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Healthy early demand does not always translate to strong demand over time, though poor initial demand is difficult for vendors to recover from.
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Though poor ocean conditions have been blamed for a nosedive in chinook salmon in Alaska this year, sockeye have done well, not only in the Columbia, but in Canadian and Alaskan rivers as well.
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Though the poor may still be with them, in the future Americans will be less aware of it.
For example, Cambodia agreed to stop importing generic drugs after 2007, even though existing poor members have until 2016 to start honouring drug patents.
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This history has spawned a deep-seated fear of formal default (though many poor countries have had de facto defaults as their debts have been rescheduled).
Though navigating poor and confusing disclosure in the Financial Footnotes to find the truth about corporate profitability and valuation takes hard work and expertise, I believe investors who do it sleep better at night.
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"When I first moved here there was a sense of community, even though we were poor, " he said.
Even though rich, poor and middle-income Americans may share the same geography, we make and spend our money in very different ways.
At the same time, one argument made against reform--as though Congress' poor track record with other "reforms" isn't enough reason for lawmakers to leave it alone--is that with health care compromising 16% of gross domestic product, reform here could be particularly harmful to the broader economy.
Perhaps the real problem, though, is not poor diet but poor education.
Governments have rarely dared try to evict the occupants of the slums because they are condemned for destroying the homes of the poor, though about 70, 000 relatively new dwellings have been bulldozed in the past month.
Though both rich and poor countries have been working to get the talks back on track since then, a substantial reduction of the rich world's bloated farm subsidies is crucial to bringing their poorer brethren back into the fold.
Yet though much of Vojvodina remains poor, some parts have done well.
Once again, though, it is the poor who have born the brunt of the disaster, with the biggest killer not the earthquake itself but poorly-constructed houses, our correspondent adds.
Rather than intervening in the market to manipulate prices, the government could respond to a winter fuel crisis by giving all its heating-oil subsidies to poor consumers (though that would do nothing to win over other voters).
Poor mimics, though they may not do as well as a good mimic in an area where its model lives, will tend to do better in an area where the model is entirely absent, but where there is another model of the same general type.
Though few Americans say that the poor have only themselves to blame, many believe it.
Most remarkable of all, though, is the effect on poor Sledge.
Though that had met with a poor reception, Ms Berman said "there's no question that the audience, in our mind, is ready, willing and able to accept new programming in the summer".
Downsides include a relatively pokey 200MHz core, poor battery life (though nothing BlackJack owners can't relate to, we reckon), and -- yeah, we're starting to nitpick here -- the lack of a mirror next to the camera.
Even though many of the houses are in poor shape, there are plenty of willing lenders.
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Africa already has the premiership's largest fan base, outstripping Asia's, though so far Africans have been too poor to affect the league's finances.
Two out of three consumers switched providers during 2011 as a result of poor customer service, even though they were more satisfied with those companies than in the year before.
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While it is true that many investors have regrettably funded marginal managers, our belief is that though the early 2000s suffer from seemingly poor returns, history would show that these will improve over time as those vintages continue to mature.
Dyfed-Powys Police said roads were poor in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, though they are passable with care.
Chelsea, though, have suffered a run of consistently poor form recently and are six points behind leaders Manchester United having played the same number of games.
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Much of the failure can be ascribed to an old-fashioned lack of informants and poor collation of existing information, though restrictive laws on wiretapping and other surveillance methods cannot have helped.
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